America needs a King or Queen …

I have always found it very confusing that America lacks a king or queen — in other words a crown — a divine person where all sovereignty in government resides within. In America, there is no crown prosecutors, no crown lands, no person who is the sovereign. Instead, of a crown, we talk about “the people” or the “the public”, which is a highly objectionable term to those who disagree with policies and laws laid down by their leaders.

In a constitutional monarchy, there is a person where the buck ultimately stops. In a democracy, there are only politicians — those who make laws — but politicians lack the moral and divine authority of a sovereign. A politician who serves at popular whim, lacks the authority of a monarch. The sovereign, which exists in a democracy, is a fictional entity, called “the people” or “the public”, but there is no such thing as “the people” or the “the public” — as in any large group there are many who object to seeing their name used for policies they disagree with. Do you consider yourself to be part of “the people” or the “the public”, when the law is used in ways you disagree with?

Europe has traditionally selected a King or Queen through heredity selection, which is one non-political way to select a leader. But I think in a more contemporary society, seeking a crown, we should look to business, education, and not-for-profit leaders. We could ask long-standing leaders to select one of their top people to serve as our country’s crown, a voice of moral authority and clarity, one who ultimately enforces and represents the good and bad of the laws set down by the politicians and implemented by the bureaucrats that do the day-to-day bidding of the politicians.